Since I first learnt about the base tag's href attribute I have used it in every single database I've written. If you don't already, I suggest you start. It saves endless amounts of time and code!

If you have views treated as HTML you will need create the links yourself. I've seen people do this and include the following code as part of a column's formula:

Who knows what damage this can cause in a database when you move folders. Not to mention the impact on indexing performance. Well, when you use the base href method, you don't need the database's path as part of the link. Just the view name, as below:

Alternatively, you could always just start the link with the "0" view name, like below:

But sometimes there's a reason to use the actual view name in the link. To avoid hard-coding the view name in the links you can use the @ViewTitle, like below:

Notice we used @Subset to always get the last element in the view's list of names, which will be the alias that we want and not its full name. If there's only one name and no alias it will simply return this name.

You could argue this is just as much a drain on the indexer as the @DBName method. Maybe so, it's just something I've started doing more and more thought it worth passing on. If nothing else, you might have learnt a trick to find the alias of a view ;o)

Which reminds me; Februaury's article is going to be called something like "Towards the perfect view". Laurens Lochtenberg of Iqinfo is working on it as we speak.